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Cassius Howard is a skilled slave, once his master's favorite. But his master Hoke is now little more than a fragile old man, depressed about an ever-shrinking plantation and losing a son to war.

Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life.

Mary Jo's caustic comments about love and life can't conceal her confusion about both, but liberated baptist Fayrene and party girl Collie help Mary Jo cope in a white, patriarchal world.

Rae's life falls apart when her father dies of cancer and her mother joins a religious cult. The only person who understands Rae is local bad girl Didi, who is experiencing a similar loss.

On the same night a drunk cop shoots a gambler, a haul of priceless jewels is stolen--setting the stage for a mystery as complex and steeped in the blues as the city of Atlanta itself.

Sonja is seen as a curiosity in the minuscule Texas town of Dorfburg. Twenty-nine years old and big-boned, she is purported to be the daughter of a famous Native American trick-roper.

Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet.

Clinch takes listeners to an upstate New York farm where the three Procter brothers live in stasis. When one dies in his sleep, the other two are soon suspected of murder.

Beginning with "you must be crazy," serial entrepreneur and angel investor Barry J. Moltz offers the true insider's scoop on new business start-ups.

"The now habit" offers the first comprehensive strategic system for overcoming the causes and eliminating the effects of procrastination.

Warren Spooner is a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after he's born.

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact.

Lionel Walk, etter known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course.

Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor.

Eisenberg investigates the forces that compel Americans to shop till they drop, taking a critical look at an often downplayed aspect of American economic prosperity.